In Chapter 47, Poem 82 of the Mokhtar Nameh, Attar of Nishapur contrasts the physical burning of a candle with the spiritual burning of the lover. The poet asserts that the candle would be deprived of its pride in burning if the intensity of the lover's true burning were made fully known to it. A fundamental distinction is drawn between the spiritual burning that consumes the entire soul of the lover and the physical burning of a candle, which is merely manufactured from wax by human hands.